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Hello freesurfer team! 

I can’t get Freeview to start up on my Mac (Catalina v 10.15.15). 

It worked intermittently earlier this year, then stopped working. I updated Freeview, and then all of freesurfer, and still have the same problem. So now I have this version of freesurfer:  freesurfer-darwin-macOS-7.1.0-20200511-813297b

Typing “freeview” into the terminal generates the following error: 

[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Caught signal number 11 SEGV: Segmentation Violation, probably memory access out of range
[0]PETSC ERROR: Try option -start_in_debugger or -on_error_attach_debugger
[0]PETSC ERROR: or see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/documentation/troubleshooting.html#Signal[0]PETSC ERROR: or try http://valgrind.org on linux or man libgmalloc on Apple to find memory corruption errors
[0]PETSC ERROR: configure using --with-debugging=yes, recompile, link, and run
[0]PETSC ERROR: to get more information on the crash.
[0]PETSC ERROR: --------------------- Error Message ------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Signal received!
[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Petsc Release Version 2.3.3, Patch 16, Tue Sep 23 10:02:49 CDT 2008 HG revision: 31306062cd1a6f6a2496fccb4878f485c9b91760
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/changes/index.html for recent updates.
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/faq.html for hints about trouble shooting.
[0]PETSC ERROR: See docs/index.html for manual pages.
[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: Unknown Name on a darwin15. named gse7359200.local by alexlw Sat Jun 13 20:58:43 2020
[0]PETSC ERROR: Libraries linked from /autofs/cluster/pubsw/arch/MacOS10.11/packages/petsc/2.3.3/src/petsc/lib/darwin15.6.0-c-opt
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure run at Mon Apr 22 13:14:02 2019
[0]PETSC ERROR: Configure options --with-debugging=no --download-f-blas-lapack=0 --download-mpich=1 --with-mpi=1 --with-x=0 --with-gnu-copyright-code=0 --with-shared=0 COPTFLAGS=-O3 CXXOPTFLAGS=-O3 FOPTFLAGS=-O3
[0]PETSC ERROR: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0]PETSC ERROR: User provided function() line 0 in unknown directory unknown file
[unset]: aborting job:
application called MPI_Abort(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 59) - process 0

I searched through the log of previous emails and found several others with “PETSC errors” but could not discern a common solution.

Help?

Thank you,

Alex White

PS: I also can’t get Freeview to launch on a linux machine, and will send a report on that in a separate email.